Clear skies and good sun visibility meant that a ton of people were able to spot the International Space Station as it passed in front of the sun last week. There are videos, photos, and written reports attesting to that fact.

After a very long period of no transits of the ISS over the Sun, I have finally got a chance of perfectly clear skies and high Sun altitude and a close flyby of the ISS at around 470km. Together with my wife I drove a few kilometers from my workplace and settled into a corn field in 30 degrees Celsius. When the moment came we both push our remote control buttons and got the dark silhouette of the ISS close to the freshly emerged sunspot groups 2104 and 2107. So for a very brief (0.6 seconds) there were three large sunspot groups on the Sun for us.

Also catching the ISS on film that day was John Stetson in Portsmouth, NH:

And finally, William Lee created a time lapse video tracking the ISS passed in front of the sun: